Minutes 2025

MIDDLE RASEN PARISH COUNCIL

Minutes of the Annual Parish Meeting on 15/04/2025

Present:-        Cllr M Stamp, Cllr D Pattison, Cllr G Dennis, Cllr P Dawson, Cllr J Padley, Cllr M O’Connor Cllr A Miller, and Cllr P Thomas

Also Present:  Mrs A Harrison (Clerk)

Visitors:-  none          

1).  Apologies for Absence:-   Cllr S Bunney (WLDC)

Resolved: To accept apologies from Councillor(s) listed above.

2)  To approve minutes of the Annual Parish Meeting held on 16th April 2024:-

The minutes were signed as a true record.  

Resolved:  To approve draft minutes.

3)  Chairman’s Report:- 

Council Members:

The Parish Council had two resignations in the last year, Cllr A Longmate who served on the Council since July 2020 and Cllr P Sexton who has been on the Council since December 2022.  The Parish would like to thank them both for their time, contribution, and work for the Village.  After advertising the vacancies, the Council where happy to co-opt Cllr P Thomas and welcome him to the Parish Council.

Thank you to all the Councillors for their continued presence and input at meetings over the year.   

Lincolnshire/West Lindsey Councillors:-

Thank you to Cllr S Bunney for his continued support of the Parish and especially assisting with issues such as flooding, planning, and highways.

Planning Applications:

Applications in 2024/25 – 11 – decrease of 18 from 2023-24 year.

The Parish Council remain consistent in their approach to applications and will continue to do so even though we still experience a level of frustration with the planning authority who continue to make decisions which would appear to give little regard to the local knowledge and experience of the Parish Council, particularly regarding flooding in the parish. 

Grants:

2024-25

The Parish Council issued total grants to the sum of £4050.00 as follows:

Middle Rasen Village Hall – £3500.00

Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal - £50.00

Middle Rasen Bowling Club – £500.00

Precept:

The Precept for 2024-25 was increased by £346.00 to £19,346.00, which has allowed the continued investment in the parish during the current cost of living rises and allowing for prudent future budgeting.

Contractors

Once again thank you to both Green Grass Contracting and Lincolnshire Landscapes for their work over the last year.

Lincolnshire County Council have continued to provide a twice-yearly safety cut on amenity grass sites within the parish.

Winter Weather contracting arrangements were arranged, however, these were not utilised this winter. 

Parish Maintenance

The Council have continued to report various highways issues to LCC from potholes and flood areas to blocked drains and broken streetlights.

The Council would also like to thank Mr Robinson and Mr Gibson for their continued support especially the installation of the two new bus shelters on Gainsborough Road and in maintaining the various benches, noticeboards, bins, etc around the village.

4)  Financial Report:- 

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The Clerk had presented the final unaudited overview of financial paperwork for the year 2024-25 prior to the meeting. Overspends and underspends were minimal, and the Clerk asked the Council if there were any queries – none.  The end of year financial information will be available to view on the website as per regulations. The public rights notice will be placed in line with regulations.

Councillors thanked the Clerk for her report, and the Finance Councillor confirmed that the accounts have been checked and are correct.  The Council thanked the Clerk for her continued hard work 

5) Open Meeting

Cllr Dawson wanted it noted that the grants paid to the Bowling Club and to the Village Hall were not paid from the Council’s Precept but from monies received from CIL funding

There being no other business the meeting closed at 7.15pm.